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One for the archives

What a night it was for Queensland Rugby League fans! And how many would have been expecting it? There is something very special about a...

Heartfelt Thanks

On behalf of the Gympie Show Society, I would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for your generous support of the 2025 Gympie Show. Your...

Parking at Dog Park

This is what we have to drive over to park at the dog park near Pacific Hyundai. For six months this problem has existed...

A rare cancer

This Rare Cancers Awareness Day, the Leukaemia Foundation is called for greater awareness and urgent investment in research to tackle one of the deadliest...

We’ve got a full dance-card

Something that "gets up my goat", as Kath Day-Knight would say, is when I hear someone exclaim, "Nothing happens in Gympie!" This weekend is just...

Solar on NZ farms a great idea

We at Farmers for Climate Action (FCA) know what a difference solar and batteries can make to a farm’s bottom line. That’s why we’re...

When it matters most

I am constantly amazed by the ability of Australians to come together when it matters most. We have seen it countless times in our history...

Living within your means

We are approaching the time when all the rate notices are delivered. I would like to remind the Gympie Shire Councillors that many people in...

Keeping our eye on the ball

My friends will tell you, when it comes to sport, any sport, I am absolutely out of my depth. But even I could tell there...

The park is all wrong

I think a very compelling argument has been made that the community is opposed to a dog park on the (Tin Can Bay) foreshore. I...

Who is running the council?

Who is running the Gympie Council? Is it the elected Councillors, do they get a say about what happens in the shire? Or do they...

School Zone speedsters might surprise

Now that Tony Perret's Liberal government has been elected, I would like to see him push to have speed cameras erected in our school...

Sex, teenagers and the law: Gympie’s young people speak

If young teenagers could vote and had a parliament which made laws applying to them, Queensland would be looking at new child safety legislation,...